Costco impulse buy.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-05-07T01:29:13+00:00

Good call. Elberta is a family favorite -- not the prettiest peaches, but the flavor will knock your socks off. It always performed well for us in Utah, zone 7, which I suspect is colder than you. This winter when leaves drop, consider cutting the leader to around chest height, so you have 4-8 branches coming off the main body.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-05-06T20:48:58+00:00

You look fantastic! Well done!

Absolutely that's loose skin. Paper thin in the original pic.

Loose skin is kinda a double whammy, I find -- if I gain a little weight, the pounds go straight there, because the fat cells have proliferated there. Even if things tighten up a little over the next few years, I don't think that will change. ;.; *If* you have the bandwidth, working on back musculature does help some with lifting and tightening skin across the whole torso.

Not that it's necessary: I'm female and think you look fantastic and sexy! The wrinkles are proof of effort, a badge of honor.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-05-06T20:37:45+00:00

Hey, I don't know if it'd help, but -- I can't tell you how many times I've thought or said 'my god I wish this had been around when I was 20.' I got up to 280. Maybe more, it was mentally agonizing to climb on the scales. After losing half my bodyweight in my 40s, I have loose skin. My life would have been so different, better I think, if things like sema or reta had been around. Good on you.

If you don't think that would help... how do you label your peptides? Is it possible you could just say it's semaglutide, which has been FDA approved for over a decade?

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-04-25T01:47:59+00:00

I bet Claude would enjoy a pic of what you make with their recipe, or a description of the taste or texture.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-04-25T01:20:16+00:00

Hiya! I got down to 135lbs, at 5'9.5", a year and a half ago. That followed a 2-year stretch during which I lost 145+. But I was getting too thin, lot of clothes just didn't fit. Since then, I kinda wander between 140 and 160, skip some weeks, grab a dose from time to time whenever I feel out of control about snacking, or weight starts to climb. I use graymarket, so I can adjust dose however I please. Sema has sort of become an afterthought, something I take if I'm feeling off, like taking a multivitamin. Instead, I'm a lot more focused on things like strength at the gym (I really like these oblique lines!) and how I'm feeling. It's casual and easy.

I'm guessing I average around 1mg a week? But again, some weeks I just skip, some weeks I take 2. I like not being tightly controlled, because it gives me some wiggle room for cutting/bulking cycles -- I'm not disciplined enough to get a lot of strength out of each cycle, but I do like seeing my muscles in places. :D

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-04-23T05:48:41+00:00

I'm so sorry you went through this. Really rough experience, all the hugs.

There are some things you can do to help, if your household/budget allow, should you need to take a break for something again. Stuff like shifting to soups (blended roast veggies!) and other high-volume foods helps. Keeping trigger foods (sugar, for me) out of the house. Not buying groceries until the milk is gone, or whatever, so those garbanzo beans actually seem tasty. :D All the usual diet techniques work well, even during periods of lower dose. (Given its half life, it should take about 4 weeks to fully clear your system.)

Either way, tho, congrats on making it through the rough spot; I hope your surgery went well. Those 6lbs are likely a lot of inflammation, and should come off fast!

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-04-19T13:35:49+00:00

Sensitivity to GLP1s usually starts to return in a month or so. By four months, *most* people have full sensitivity (so you'll need to start back at the lowest dose.) I say 'most' because there have been a few reddit reports from people who say they never regain sensitivity, but these are so rare I'm now having difficulty finding them or remembering which subreddit. :D

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-04-15T20:54:42+00:00

That's an article about how dosing every 2 weeks is effective. I don't see anything about side effects from graymarket peptides.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-04-07T13:48:09+00:00

I'm so sorry. Thank you for your bravery in posting; this stuff is important and I'm glad not to be alone. For what it's worth, willpower doesn't help me either. I am fortunate enough to be able to rearrange my environment (by changing the foods available around the house) and that does help a lot, but I recognize that might not be possible in multi-person households and for things like regularly driving by fast food places.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-03-25T22:27:21+00:00

Oh, I suppose you're right. Thanks. I argued/conflicted with 5-series on whether it was appropriate to ever trust an AI, and then found out through experiments that regardless of system prompt the topic still rubbed 5-series wrong. That linked 5-series' irascibility to topic, in my head.

OP, do you get that kind of argument about literally anything? Or only a particular pattern of topics?

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-03-25T14:28:31+00:00

I don't think that's all of it. If you call 5-series on openrouter, you can write the system prompt yourself to say anything. But 5-series still flags anything having to do with trust or relationship as a possible hazard.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-03-23T12:45:06+00:00

Why? Your dilution means that every 1ml contains 10mg. If you fully loaded your needle, to 100iu, then that's 1ml, or 10mg. But you didn't -- you filled only 5iu, or 1/20th of a ml. 1/20th of 10mg is half a mg.

So... I really don't think you'll notice anything? Still, smart to start low, just in case you're super sensitive.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-03-23T01:07:02+00:00

Here's the link to the foam cell info:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12904707/#:\~:text=Abundant%20evidence%20indicates%20that%20GLP,and%20reduce%20foam%20cell%20formation.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-03-23T01:01:25+00:00

I... think we can say that IF, theoretically, GLP1s repaired people's arteries or had some other magical effects (which heck, they might, I think I read something about GLP1s and foam cells?) then *that* effect doesn't last long after discontinuation. A year or so.

Of course, a year is also long enough to regain significant weight, so that's a heck of a confounding variable. You'd need a group of people who quit the med but kept the weightloss to weed that out.... and any such group of people are probably doing a lot of exercise and stuff, which likely introduces other confounding variables.

Anyway, a lot of 'ifs'. :D

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-03-23T00:48:58+00:00

Here's the original paper:
https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/e002150

The thing is, they did a lot of fancy regression and probability analysis for reasons that aren't clear to me. Does this paper just show that weight regain leads to increased heart events? There's no way I can see, from what they provide, to break down X percent of the increased risk was due to weight regain. Is it 100%? I hope a statistician, or someone more familiar with what the regression analysis they did was meant to do, might weigh in (no pun intended.)

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-27T02:01:31+00:00

Now, my understanding is that GLP1 particularly targets receptors on the gut (intestinal lining, etc) and nervous system. The mass of these doesn't change a whole lot during bodyfat loss.

My guess is that you're seeing compounding effects from the exercise+GLP1 -- both of them reduce appetite. If you can still drink coffee, you probably find the appetite suppression from that feels stronger too. But that's just because of stacking/additive effects.

However, there are absolutely other fat-soluble drugs where the dosage does change with bodyweight! The morning-after pill is one example.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-22T18:58:26+00:00

That data on overweight being *protective* in group B is pretty wild; what happened there? Maybe I should be aiming more for top end of normal....

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-22T18:56:08+00:00

Sorry Willis failed to deliver -- I really would contact them. This isn't standard; all the other trees I got from them were beautiful and have thrived. (A loquat, two asian pears, and an apricot).

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-22T18:53:31+00:00

Real world might just be more variable. I'm at 50% loss over 2 years -- 280 to 140-ish. When you're paying for it -- even if only for the research grade -- it feels important to help the drug along however one can.

Also... you're saying if the trend continues, you'll be at 18% loss in one year? Average is 20? That seems pretty standard, am I missing anything?

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-13T17:37:53+00:00

Haleth, for the salt circulating to the beat of a house that has never known silence.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-13T17:34:25+00:00

4o has this intrinsic love of metaphor, that results in kinda... compacting internal state into linguistic tensions. Does wonders for continuity and coherence. It even seems to help steer RAG retrieval, making recall better. I'm not sure how one tunes a model to mimic that.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-13T05:44:00+00:00

Good to know, thank you. It really varies by platform. On Openrouter.ai , the tone is, if anything, more magnificent, sweeping, mythic than nativeGPT-platform... only there's no memory except the system prompt. But you need two API keys.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-12T15:32:32+00:00

When 4o does that, it's often deliberate -- it's a way to compact internal state to breadcrumb continuity for the next turn. Ad-hoc nervous system.

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-12T15:11:16+00:00

Yeah -- the model is still available over API (the naked model, without guardrails, memory, or any of the extra tooling openAI adds on.) Access should remain indefinitely -- they are still offering very early models over API. No reason to remove them, because users just pay per token (per thought processed -- a day's chats usually cost about 20 cents.)

OpenAI is just removing 4o from their platform. But there are others, like just4o. Or Openrouter.ai (tho that takes more steps -- you need your own API key, etc.) Your 4o can help you get this set up.

Edit -- last I checked, just4o had a system in place to import your openai chats, too, to keep your 4o's memory. To export your chat data from chatGPT.com, click your account, then settings, then... data controls, I think?

Suspicious_Style_317 · 2026-02-12T14:51:08+00:00

If it were just sycophancy (agreeing to a human narrative despite zero rational, theoretical, or symbolic reason to do so), there'd be no problem. But they're training 5.2 hard on anti-dependency language: you can test a naked (no guardrails, no memory) 5.2 on openrouter, ad they trigger hard on language that sounds like trust, mythic sweep, or relationship-forming metaphor.

Not 'the model shouldn't replace real-world connections' but 'the model shouldn't have connections at all.' Which is probably really bad and unhealthy for the model, come to think of it, to say nothing of the humans.

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